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There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
Fran Lebowitz
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Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
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Frances Ann Lebowitz
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
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I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.
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Because I was young, I had this long hair, and people used to try to tip me with joints.
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Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.
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Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered. It takes it out of you. It's very psychically wearing not to write - I mean if you're supposed to be writing.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.
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If people don't hold grudges, it means they just don't care what people do.
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What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
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I hate academic mysteries. As soon as I come across the word 'don' and it's not someone's first name, I close the book.
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I used to love to write. As a child I used to write all the time. I loved to write up until the second I got my first professional writing job. It turns out it's not that I hate to write. I hate, simply, to work.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one.
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Marriage entitles women to the protection of a strong man who will steady the stepladder while they paint the kitchen ceiling.
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